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The truth is...

The King of England from 1714 to 1727, George I, could not speak English.

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Dislexia sucks...

especially when you confuse hominids,
you no, when too works sound the same
butt may bee spelled differently.

Or they R different all together,
butt close enuf two confuse and confound.
Like then and than – those dam vowels.

Butt eye think I finally mastered
all those “there”s, there are a lot them, you no.
There, their, they’re, there’s, theirs.
Thar, I think I got it.
Oops, mist again.

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"...it’s a much better film THAN you’d expect."

"Than", not "then".

(Use "than" for comparison of grammatical objects that differ from one another, or to set aside something that is different. Use "then" to indicate temporal order -- that which comes next after something else.)

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Retro SciFi of the Week…

Epoch (2001)

This is an independently produced film which I assume was done on a low budget, but as with last week’s film, it’s a much better film then you’d expect. It was released around the time of the 9/11 attacks, so there wasn’t much room available to create a lot buzz for it. Even so, when it aired on the SciFi Channel (SYFY) in November 2001, it drew the largest audience of any film on the channel to that date.

The movie is about an artifact that suddenly appears in Agua Dulce.

(image: fair use low-res movie poster)

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vanityfair.com/style/2022/02/q

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Those two who are doing this, US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth and attorney Jonathan Mitchell, better hope that they never find themselves under the knife of a gay surgeon who, based on this precedent, could proceed as his conscience directed him.

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The truth is…

A vegan doctor working in a hospital emergency room does not have to treat any patient who comes in with a gunshot wound due to a hunting accident. The doctor can just claim religious freedom and let the patient die.

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Judge says that denying people treatment for HIV is religious freedom…

bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6

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Putin says that all of those Russian soldiers who have died in the Ukrainian War are “nothing”.

youtube.com/watch?v=N8Ff3gXxAn

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a shocking comment... 

Have you ever touched a dead body with your tongue?

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A global network for content curatorship.

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Congratulations to Liz Truss on becoming the presumptive next Prime Minister of the UK.

(image Open Government License 3.0, gov.uk/government/people/eliza)

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Augmented hallucinations.

(MAGA folk are early adopters.)

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FFP = filtering facepiece (respirator)

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Bingo!

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qoto.org/@Pat/1089148747264658

Key word, "afford".

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Retro SciFi of the Week…

American Warships (2012)

If you’re a fan of independent films, I highly recommend this one.

This ten-year-old film is what’s known in the business as a “mockbuster”, a lower budget film with a similar name or theme as a major studio film and released around the same time. The idea is that the major studio will spend a ton of money promoting the big film, and then the low-budget mockbuster film will “draft” off of all that promotion, with audiences wanting to see similar films or sometimes mistaking the low-budget film for the major studio film. In this case, the big film was Battleship (2012).

However, despite having a budget of less than 1% of that major motion picture, this mockbuster, American Warships, was a much better film. Battleship got sunk at the box office (and with critics), while American Warships made money for Asylum (the independent studio that produced American Warships).

As a low budget film, this one lacks the high-quality computer graphics of major studio films at that time, but it makes up for it with great casting, a well-written script, decent thespians, a unique plot, and an overall high-production value (except the CG).

Note: Don’t read any descriptions or watch trailers for this one, most of them contain major spoilers.

(image: fair use low-res movie poster)

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This is long CoVID...

If Biden had worn a respirator whenever he was around other people, he would not have gotten infected with the virus and he would not still be sick from it.

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***Help Forum***

[SOLVED] Why won’t engine #3 cool down properly?

Ans: Just try again on Saturday, and if it messes up again you can just scrub the launch one more time and then spend a bunch of taxpayer money trying to change out the sensor while the thing is already on the launch pad.

(Tip: Next time put in multiple, redundant, cheap (in money and weight) sensors throughout the engine so you’ll know exactly whats going on.)

nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to

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Bowman: “Well HAL, I'm damned if I can find anything wrong with it.”

HAL: “I would recommend that we put the unit back in operation and let it fail.”

HAL: “We can certainly afford to be out of [commission] for the short time it will take to replace it.”

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